It's all done with how they change colors in the new version. Just like how you don't have to submit over 8 sprite sheets of Mega Man for his color changes, and just like how you can turn the game black and white.
Ok...I'm done...I'm finally done with this nightmare...I HATED doing this one. I sincerely hope it was worth it. Nobody seemed very excited about it...I'm gonna go Bill Murray myself. (toaster in the bath) Edit: I've updated it a minor bit. The sprite in at the bottom left corner isn't used. It's just an example of how I want him to look when he gets a fire flower, or Spearhead in this case.
Well the black and white thing is just a grayscale filter with a touch of green. It's not even remotely the same thing. Not the mention that Mario Land 2 Mario doesn't change colors, he gets a feather in his hat. That leads me to believe there's a separate sprite sheet for every characters colors that they didn't post for lack of confusion.
Good point about the feather, I forgot all about that... Have fun reliving Groundhog Day over and over for the rest of your life.
Actually it is just a method for changing colors. It's also used to turn goombas blue underground and other little things like that. What I tend to do is put the color scheme for fire flower mode in one of the empty boxes. I think the Mario Land 2 thing is really just a bit of a separate trick Jay tossed in for accuracy, but for the most part it's a matter of palette swapping.
I wonder if the pallet for the Mario Land 2 Mario had certain colors that were changed transparent for mushroom Mario and given an actual color for fire flower Mario. That would be interesting. I'm sure it was a lot simpler than that, but it sounded kinda neat and smart in my head >.> That was like a week ago, I think you fixed the time loop and didn't even realize it.
That could very well be it. I can't pretend I could figure out how to do it myself, but Ryuza certainly knows his shit. I be he could pull it off.
Please do! But first, you might want to clean up that 5 o'clock shadow he has going on in his portrait.
I'd be willing to submit the skin for you. I also took the liberty of changing the portrait a bit, but it's YOUR skin. I'm not doing anything without your OK.
I'll post it because I want to finish the SMW Map and I'll post them all at once. Also, thanks for fixing the portrait! I'll add him in real quick.
Sure. Once I figure out how to post everything (I looked at it earlier but didn't go into great detail) I'll have it all posted.